Quotes About Art

Music is something that's always been a huge part of my life.

Photography was the only thing that mattered in my life and I gave it everything.

To create something beautiful about despair or out of a feeling of despair is for me the most hopeful life affirming thing a person can do

They hear it come out, but they don't know how it got there. They don't understand that's life's way of talking. You don't sing to feel better. You sing cause that's a way of understanding life.

A half dozen pictures would just about be enough for the life of an artist, for my life.

Art is uncompromising, and life is full of compromises.

A good sketch is better than a long speech.

You're serving. You're not a servant. Serving is a supreme art. God is the first servant. God serves men but he's not a servant to men. - Eliseo Orefice

It was not my aim to paint about the Negro in America in terms of propaganda. It is to depict the life of my people as I know it, passionately and dispassionately as Brueghel.

I have a vision of life, and I try to find equivalents for it in the form of photographs.

Never try to convey your idea to the audience - it is a thankless and senseless task. Show them life, and they'll find within themselves the means to assess and appreciate it.

If you want to get somewhere in this life, learn to draw beautiful women.

Animation means to invoke life, not to imitate it.

Magic is the art of changing consciousness at will.

Colors live a remarkable life of their own after they have been applied to the canvas.

It's not a matter of painting life, it's a matter of giving life to painting.

We have nothing to lose, nothing to gain, nothing we desired anymore- except to make our lives into a work of art.

Then marble, soften'd into life, grew warm.

Painting completed my life.

The Difference Between Art and Life is that Art is More Bearable

Life is the only art that we are required to practice without preparation, and without being allowed the preliminary trials, the failures and botches, that are essential for the training...

The role of art for me is the visualization of attitude, of the human attitude towards life, towards the world.

Actors ought to be larger than life. You come across quite enough ordinary, nondescript people in daily life and I don't see why you should be subjected to them on the stage too.

The artist has to look at life as he did when he was a child. If he loses that faculty, he cannot express himself in an original, that is, a personal way.